Sameer Patil

Dr Sameer Patil is Senior Fellow, Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology and Deputy Director, ORF Mumbai. His work focuses on the intersection of technology and national security, including cybersecurity. Dr Patil also serves as India Commissioner for the Global Tech Security Commission, set up by the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and the Atlantic Council. He has previously worked at the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India and Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations. He is also the dissertation advisor at the Indian Naval War College.

Dr Patil is the author of Securing India in the Cyber Era (Routledge, 2022) and has co-edited Moving Forward EU-India Relations: The Significance of the Security Dialogues (Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2017). He has PhD and MPhil in international politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has participated in several Track 1 and Track 1.5 dialogues. He is the recipient of the Australian Government’s prestigious Canberra Fellowship.

• Dissertation Advisor, Naval War College, Goa